Game



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application filed April 24, 1918. Serial No. 230,475.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIS C. COHEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Willimantic, in the county of \Vindham, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the mvention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a game device,

and has for its primary object to provide a device of this character, wherein the players will be required to exercise their thinking faculties to master the game and at the same time afiord attraction and amusement for the players.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a game device of this character wherein a series of movable subordinate objects and a master object are employed, the game being designated The Volf and the Sheep or Bagging the Kaiser, and the series of subordinate objects are distinguished and entitled sheep while the master object is entitled wolf and these objects are movable in prescribed courses upon a playing board having demarcations representative of a central and corner fields or goals, the fields or goals being checkered or subdivided, simulating a checker or chess board, and the object is to trap the wolf object or capture the sheep objects, thus the winner of the game being determined resultant therefrom.

The invention is hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of the game board constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof;

3 is a plan View of one of the subordinate objects;

Fig. 4 is a plan View of the master object.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

In carrying the invention into practice a game board A is provided having printed or otherwise indicated or marked on its upper face an intermediate or center square 5 and corner squares 6 each of equilateral rectanglar shape. The center and corner squares each is subdivided by cross lines into grouped smaller squares 7 while these squares are further subdivided by the crossed diagonal long and short lines 8 and 9 respectively. The center square 5 forms a field or goal common to all the players, while the squares (i at the conners are for the opponent players and constitute fields or goals.

Adapted to be placed and moved upon the board A over the playing surface thereof are series of subordinate objects each in the form of a small disk 10 and a master object 11 in the form of a large disk, the board A being preferably made from pasteboard, although it may be made from any other material, while the disks 10 and 11 are made from wood, yet the same may be made from other material. The smaller disks 10 are indicated or designated sheep, while the larger disk 11 is indicated or designated wolf. There are twelve disks 10 and a single disk 11 employed in playing the game, and but two players can be opponents in the playing of the game, that is to say, the game can be played by only two persons.

In the playing of the game, to start the object 11 designated wolf can be placed anywhere 011 the playing face of the board A. The disks 10 designated sheep are placed one by one on the playing face of the board until the number has been exhausted. The players alternately move their objects such as the disks l0 and 11. The wolf and sheep can be moved anywhere on the fields of the playing surface of the board A,

the movements of the wolf being controlled by one player and the movements of the sheep controlled by the other player, but after the start the sheep subsequent to being placed cannot be moved until all of the other sheep have been positioned upon the board. The wolf is allowed to capture any sheep, but the sheep are not allowed to do this, the object being to force the wolf into such a position that it cannot be moved. The wolf can capture a sheep by jumping him as in a game of ordinary checkers. Should the wolf capture all of the sheep the ame is given to the opponent controlling the movements of the same but should the wolf be forced by the other player into a position that it cannot be moved, said other player wins the game. It is of course understood that the disks in their movements are required to be moved into and from squares in the fields or goals in the progress of the game.

In playing the game Bagging the Kaiser the wolf can be designated the kaiser and the sheep designated as soldiers.

From the foregoing it is thought that the mode of playing the game and the manner of use of the device therefor will be clearly understood, and therefore a more extended explanation has been omitted. Rules may be mutually agreed upon for playing the game, and to Vary and make the same attractive and interesting.

What is claimed is:

A game apparatus comprising a board WILLIAM A. KING, H. C. LA'IHROP. 

